Writer/director Joseph Oxford and cinematographer Bradley Stonesifer discuss "Me + Her" a short performed entirely with puppets made of corrugated card board. The two describe the workflow and tools used to make the film.

Understand the fundamentals of making selections to work with the chosen parts of an image. Learn how to make some basic selections, and perform some popular actions like replacing colors, duplicating objects, or compositing photos.

See how Kappa Studios switched from Avid to an all-Adobe workflow, including Adobe Premiere Pro, to tackle all the visual effects, compositing, off-line, on-line, and audio for The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange, the TV adaptation of the amazingly popular web series. This presentation will cover the workflow for this technically complicated, multi-dimensional, and fast-paced comedy show that airs on Cartoon Network.

Get the most out of the instantly-updating Dynamic Link relationship between Premiere Pro and After Effects. With great ease, you can work on video files in both applications simultaneously, seeing updates immediately in either application, and vastly expanding your special effects and compositing toolset. This lesson shows you how easy it is to connect these two powerful applications.

Get the fundamentals of video compositing in Premiere Pro. Jeff Sengstack covers the basics of how to combine images, text, backgrounds, and video clips to create simple graphics sequences for your video projects. Learn more from the complete course at Infiniteskills.com.

Learn the basic techniques of video compositing. Author Jeff Sengstack shows how to layer graphics, video clips, and backgrounds to create an effective composite. Learn more from the complete course at Infiniteskills.com.

Sequence nesting is a powerful but simple technique used in editing and special effects workflows. In a nutshell, you put one sequence inside another – but there is so much more to it than that, as Maxim Jago demonstrates. See the full course at Adobe Premiere Pro CC: Learn by Video

Learn about a Photoshop tool that allows you to paint in adjustments into specific areas of your photograph. Instead of making broad and global adjustments to your photograph, the Adjustment Brush allows you to paint in exposure, contrast, highlights, or any of the other controls into specific areas. Applies to the CC and CS6 versions of Photoshop. Learn more from the full courses at lynda.com.

Discover After Effects, the industry-standard tool for video compositing, motion graphics, and cinematic visual effects. Justin Seeley shows how After Effects is used in television and film to composite and rotoscope scenes, create special effects and 3D scenes, and design and animate motion graphics and titles. Learn more from the full courses at Lynda.com.

Learn how to reposition a subject, clean up a mask, and modify the overall color and tone of your combined photo in Photoshop.
Applies to the CC and CS6 versions of Photoshop. Learn more from the full courses at lynda.com.

Learn how to put a subject in a new environment. Chris Orwig uses the Quick Select tool to build a mask and take a subject from one photo to another. Applies to the CC and CS6 versions of Photoshop. Learn more from the full courses at lynda.com.

Learn how to combine two different images together in Photoshop. This allows you to change the environment where the picture was taken by using the Free Transform, Crop, Selection, Mask and Refine Radius tools to transform two photos into one. Applies to the CC and CS6 versions of Photoshop. Learn more from the full courses at lynda.com.

Join Ethan Malasky, Adobe senior engineering manager, for a fun, immersive presentation in which he "interacts" with cartoonish characters to illustrate the various graphical features found on the web today and the ones coming soon. Malasky will cover:• The history of the graphical web• The background and details behind SVG, Canvas, and WebGL• Next-generation CSS features like CSS Shaders, Compositing, and Blending

Demystify the process of 3D animation with Adobe After Effects, which not only offers features for working in 3D, but also serves as a stepping-stone to more advanced 3D programs. In this session, MAX Master Colin Smith will help you dip your toes into the water of 3D animation and compositing.You’ll learn how to:• Track 3D elements with complete control over depth of field, shadows, and reflections• Extrude text and shapes into 3D using After Effects and Adobe Illustrator• Work with advanced 3D programs alongside After Effects

Kappa Studios switches from Avid to an all Adobe workflow for the production of Cartoon Network's new hit show Annoying Orange. This animated series originated online and when viewership broke a billion views it was time to take the production to broadcast. With the demand for extremely quick turn around Kappa Studios knew only Adobe video tools could meet their needs for complicated animation and accelerated post workflows to make the production a success.

When someone has had the foresight to film a subject in front of a solid-color background, compositing work gets a lot easier. This video shows you how to use the Keylight effect to key out (make transparent) a solid-color background and use a garbage matte to isolate the area to be keyed.

Join Scott Kelby, Kelby Media Group CEO, as he shows his favorite features in the new release of Adobe Photoshop, showing performance enhancements and timesaving features available to Creative Cloud members.

Glyn Dewis, Photoshop World Instructor, will show you how to quickly create backgrounds and composite images using techniques available in Photoshop CS6 plus some quick fire Beauty Retouching and lighting effects in the ‘Never Ending Lighting Rig’.

Many advanced photographers are shooting multiple exposures these days in an attempt to blend them together and achieve the perfect composition. In this episode, Colin will reveal a simple one-click feature that will do all the work for you and the result looks like the same as if you took hours to paint a complex Layer Mask.

Discover the power of this industry-standard video-compositing, motion-graphics-design and animation tool. Learn how it integrates with the Creative Suite, see how it is used in television and film to create special effects, how to composite scenes with blue/green screen keying, and complete creative tasks like drawing, 3D, and titles.

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Sequence nesting is a powerful but simple compositing technique. In a nutshell, you put one sequence inside another – but there is so much more to it than that, as you'll see in this lesson. (Premiere Pro CS6 & CC)

Adobe introduced the powerful Roto Brush in After Effects CS5 allowing you to increase your productivity when compositing layers together. Colin has some great tips to help you get the most out of Roto Brush including how to help After Effects make the best choices when propagating new frames.

Embrace the power of Mettle ShapeShifter AE plug-in. Learn the basics and then create a sophisticated promo based on displacement mapping techniques. Overcome the limitations of After Effects 3D space with few advanced compositing tricks.

In this session, delve into the world of high-end creative retouching in the world of fashion advertising and art photography. Expect expert insights, techniques and advice around creative retouching and image compositing.

In this session, delve into the world of high-end creative retouching in the world of fashion advertising and art photography. Expect expert insights, techniques and advice around creative retouching and image compositing.

Russell Brown talks about how to get the most out of Photoshop by using the right tools. In this case, he’s using an HP Z210 Workstation powered by Intel Xeon processors and an HP EliteBook 8560w Mobile Workstation when he goes on the road.

Create a real time Compositing experience in Premiere Pro using the Ultra Key and Track Matte Key effects. Overcome the limitations of the Track Matte effect using special advanced tricks. Watch the final movie here (Hebrew version only).

In this episode of the Complete Picture, Julieanne demonstrates several ways to use leading lines in order to guide a viewer’s eye through an image including leading towards the primary subject, keeping movement within the frame, and adding tension to a composition.

In this Episode of the Complete Picture Julieanne discusses how the addition of color as well as supporting imagery can help reinforce the mood and message of a composite image that a single photograph may fail to do on it’s own.

In this Episode of the Complete Picture Julieanne reveals some basic compositing techniques in Photoshop CS5 that she used to illustrate the feeling and mood of Iceland. Discover how easy it is to combine multiple images together using Layers, masking, blend modes, and transparency in Photoshop CS5.

Learn about programming charts, graphs, diagrams, animations, drawing applications, and other early use cases for the HTML5 canvas element. Get a deep-dive exploration of the canvas API. Shapes, styles, transforms, compositing, images, and even animation will be covered in depth. Along the way, we'll explore numerous examples on both the frivolous and more practical sides of the scale. References to the Adobe Flash Player drawing API will be made where applicable.

We will cover techniques from projects that use alternative means of creating 3D objects, compositing rendered stills into a 3D-like environment, displaying 3D assets in a non-3D environment and adding 3D as a detail or interactive component in the Flash experience. This video brought to you by our friends at Aquent.

It's time to Finish up your project. You'll start by fine tuning your composition using adjustment layers. Then you'll adjust the timing of various transitions to sync better to music. Finally you'll learn how to render out your finished video as a standalone file.

In part 6 of this series, you'll learn how to bring a Photoshop document into Adobe After Effects CS5 and then animate the various layers using rotation key frames to form the final shot for your composition.

Continue your education in Adobe After Effects CS5 by learning how to use masks to reveal different layers of your composition. Also covered is how to duplicate text from another composition so that you can reanimate in different ways.

In this episode, you'll learn how to group animated elements together in Adobe After Effects CS5 to create a unified motion. This process is called Parenting. You'll also learn how to use Null Objects to group motion together.

In part 2 of this series, you'll continue to expand your knowledge of Adobe After Effects CS5 by learning how to fine tune your animation. Learn how to use keyframes as well as spatial and temporal interpolation to allow elements in your motion title sequence to smoothly slide in and out of place.

The best way to learn something is by doing it! In this series you'll learn the basics of compositing and animating in Adobe After Effects CS5 by creating a dynamic motion title sequence. This first episode covers animation terminology, the After Effects workspace, commonly used tools and basic motion.

Somewhere between the decisive moment and moving pictures lies the world of digital compositing - where multiple images captured at different times layer together to create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. In this episode Julieanne Kost will demonstrate how to transform concepts and ideas into images by mastering the tools used in compositing.

One of the biggest challenges today in compositing is removing the background from someone with wispy hair. Now this is EASY in Photoshop CS5. In this episode I'll show you how to do in a couple of minutes what used to take hours or not even possible before in Photoshop.

Today's video production workflows benefit tremendously from applications that are designed to run natively on 64-bit operating systems. Learn what you can do to optimize your hardware for optimum performance.

Adobe Photoshop software is the undisputed standard in digital imaging, preferred by professionals worldwide for its unmatched editing and compositing capabilities. Photoshop CS5 redefines the image‐editing experience with a strong focus on photography, breakthrough painting and selection capabilities, and a wide range of workflow and performance enhancements that boost productivity at every level. Designed for professionals who want to push the boundaries of traditional digital imaging, Photoshop CS5 Extended delivers everything in Photoshop CS5 as well as features that enable you to create and edit 3D imagery and motion‐based content and perform advanced image analysis. Watch this video for a sample of just a few of the many powerful features in both products.

Manage your media visually with Adobe Bridge CS5 software, which now offers more flexible batch renaming, support for drag and drop between Creative Suite components, and the ability to access files in the context of what you’re working on by using the customizable Adobe Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended.

The inclusion of this powerful 2.5D planar motion tracking software from Imagineer Systems was one of the most popular features in After Effects CS4. After Effects CS5 comes bundled with Mocha version 2, which includes important new features.

Automatically correct lens distortions and fix chromatic aberration and vignetting with Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended, which use an image file’s EXIF data to make precise adjustments based on the type of camera and lens you used.

With Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended, when you remove an image element, Content-Aware Fill replaces the missing pixels almost magically. This revolutionary new tool matches lighting, tone, and noise so it looks like the deleted content never existed.

With Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask with new Adobe Repoussé technology. Twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate these designs, and then easily apply rich materials like chrome, glass, and cork to explore different looks. And take your designs even further by leveraging the Adobe 3D Forge engine for advanced editing of your 3D models.

Jim Geduldick, After Effects artist at Offhollywood and leader of the popular AENY user group, shows how the new features in After Effects CS5—as well as new 64-bit plug-ins from The Foundry—are being used in production.

In this episode, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to get better compositing results with Light Wraps - an effect used to blend the background light and foreground elements more convincingly during a composite.